Itinera Mediterranea Commission (2013-2019)

Chair:        B. Valdés, Sevilla

Secretary:        E. Vitek, Wien

Members:        M. Aghababyan, Erevan
                      C. Chatelain, Genève
                      T. Constantinidis, Patras
                      G. Domina, Palermo
                      H. Duman, Ankara
                      M. Fennane, Rabat
                      D. Jeanmonod, Genève
                      J. Molina, Montpellier
                      F. M. Raimondo, Palermo
                      E. Vela, Montpellier
                      V. Vladimirov, Sofia

The commission activities are mainly focused on the organization of collaborative botanical explorations of poorly known Mediterranean areas called ITINERA Mediterranea. A synopsis of the Itinera Mediterranea is available here.

In 2014 was organized the 12th OPTIMA Iter in Tunisia from 24 March to 4 April. This Iter was organized one year in advance in collaboration with ATUTAX (Association Tunisienne de Taxonomie). The principal sets of herbarium specimens, sorted, packed and dispatched by care of the Herbarium Mediterraneum, were distributed in conformity with a previous agreement among the participants. In all, 1374 gatherings were made from 43 localities. They belong to 82 families and 539 species or subspecies. The results have been published on Bocconea 27(1).

It has been agreed to organize the next OPTIMA iter in Late June 2017 in Albania thanks to the support of prof. Alfred Mullaj from Tirana.
New contacts are in act to organize further OPTIMA iters in the next years.

This page last updated 14 June, 2016.